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Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Works with your Typos

I am what I choose to call an “inattentive typist”, so if I’m trying to launch apps in GNOME Shell, it can cause me issues. See, GNOME Shell is a “stickler for specificity”. You must type what you’re looking for in the overview search box correctly, or it returns no results. App launchers used on other desktop environments and OSes, use “fuzzy matching” (which predicts what you were trying to type) to work around this. GNOME Shell doesn’t, so if I futz a “frfiox”, or try to locate LibreOffice with “liberoffice”, I get nothing. It’s not a major hardship. I […]

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